COMPANIES

• Air India shuts overseas offices
• Boeing to cut 12,000 jobs
• DaimlerChrysler to close 3 plants
• Ford to develop new hybrid engine
• Tata to invest Rs 3,555 cr in phone services
• Tatas to decide on Spectranet buyout
• Tata Sons open offer for 16.69% in CMC
• Tatas to merge Net firm with Teleservices
• ABN Amro buys Infosys Finacle
• Hind Latex to set up centre in Dubai
• GE Plastics shuts Baroda rubber plant
• Stakeholders to decide Panna-Mukta rights
• Forbes Gokak moots buying Electrolux JV stake
• FIs cancel assistance to Hinduja power project
• MusicWorld to set up unit in Bangladesh
• Carzonrent to represent Hertz in India
• ITC Bhadrachalam net soars 62 per cent

GENERAL

• Cabinet expansion likely
• Fresh anthrax case reported in US
• Northern alliance seizes provincial capital
• Industrial growth slumps to 1.8 per cent
• Three agri-export projects cleared

PEOPLE

• Ramani to head HP Labs
• Mahesh Gupta to take over as RPG group CFO
• Rakesh Mohan quits as FMs adviser